cup
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old English cuppe, from Late Latin cuppa, probably a form of Latin cūpa (“tub”), from Proto-Indo-European *keup- (“a hollow”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman cupe, from the same Latin source.
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Noun [edit]
cup (plural cups)
- A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass).
- Pour the tea into the cup.
- A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces, 1/16 of a US gallon, or 236.5882365 ml.
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament.
- A contest for which a cup is awarded.
- The World Cup is the world's most widely watched sporting event.
- (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
- The ball just misses the cup.
- (US) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia. (for UK usage see box)
- Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup.
- One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast, used as a measurement of size.
- The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material.
- (mathematics) The symbol
denoting union and similar operations (confer cap.) - A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
- (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
- A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction (suction cup).
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Translations [edit]
vessel for drinking
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unit of measurement
trophy in the shape of an oversized cup
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contest for which the trophy is awarded
part of brassiere
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Verb [edit]
cup (third-person singular simple present cups, present participle cupping, simple past and past participle cupped)
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
- Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
- (transitive) To hold something in cupped hands.
- He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
- (transitive, obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
- Shakespeare
- Cup us, till the world go round.
- Shakespeare
- (transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
- (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
- to cup the end of a screw
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Albanian [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Proto-Albanian *tˢupa, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁-po- (compare Sanskrit śṓpha ‘swelling’), from *ḱuh₁- ‘to swell up’.
Adjective [edit]
cup
- odd (not even)
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Etymology 2 [edit]
Variant of sup
Noun [edit]
cup
Dalmatian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin caput. Compare Italian capo, Romanian cap, Spanish cabo.
Noun [edit]
cup m
Finnish [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Hyphenation: cup
- IPA: /kɑp/
Noun [edit]
cup
- cup (contest)
Declension [edit]
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Declension of cup (type risti)
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Lojban [edit]
Rafsi [edit]
cup
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- Lojban rafsi
denoting union and similar operations (confer